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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derik123derik123:
when I have my phone connected normally and on.. I do adb devices and it finds it.

when I do it when its in fastboot usb... it doesn't show any...

is that a problem? can I still do this?

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help?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Well it seem that its connected in fastboot. In fastboot you normally just execute the commands. If it shows up in adb, you should be find. I don't know the exact fastboot command to show the device there.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derik123derik123:
okay, well... I went ahead and tried doing it.. but when I type.. Fastboot oem rebootRUU

I get this..

Is fastboot not correctly installeD?

i'm confused... haha
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Try typing in "fastboot" , no quotes, and then the rest of your command. When you use adb/command prompt, it is case sensitive.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derik123derik123:
yeah it says

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>fastboot

'fastboot' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

seems like its not installed? I'm running w7 x64
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derik123derik123:
ah, I was cd'd to the wrong directory... now when I do it.. I get this http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/9963/captureiqc.png
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derik123derik123:
nvmm I know whats wrong. I got it working. gonna run Fastboot oem rebootRUU

now.

sending "zip" now... writing...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Its not that its not installed, but you're running it from a folder where the commands aren't. Try looking in another folder, like the tools folder. Because I type fastboot, and it brings up all the commands.

Edit: Nevermind, glad ya got it working bud.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #Winning#:
Not trying to hijack this thread whatsoever. I have read all of your posts and if your having trouble what you are doing right now I would still fall back on running the RUU on your comp while your phone is in fastboot. Your phone will need to be in fastboot before you run it on your computer and for good measure I would reboot the bootloader from the fast menu a couple times before running the RUU. Another thing that I would recommend is to reboot your computer before trying this out or reboot if it is not working. I have used this method 4 times on 3 different Evo's and have had success with every one of them. Yes, it can take some time getting it to take, but I promise if its done correctly that itll work. Use one of the newest RUU files if your phone has one of the new boot versions.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derik123derik123:
okay.. well it sent it.. was working... Then I got this at the end of all the stuff...

FAILED (remote: 90 hboot pre-update! please flush image again immediately)

finished. total time: 60.501s

So i ran the fastboot flash zip again.. and I'm waiting on that...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
To add to what he said [all was correct and viable] but http://www.shipped-roms.com/shipped/Supersonic/ <- download the 3.70 RUU. Also, you aren't thread jacking if you helping. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derik123derik123:
It seems to be working.. its "writing" more things than before... and on the phone it has HTC and a progress bar.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Keep us a la posted.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derik123derik123:
OKAY [175.459s]

finished. total time: 204.693s

but that phone is still at the HTC logo and a full progress bar... Gonna wait...

Thanks for helping btw.. ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #Winning#:
Nice addition there sir, I guess I left it out. I thought that earlier on someone had mentioned running the RUU on the computer because of the error picture they posted about it not finding the phone. This is the best and only reliable way I have ever found to unroot. The only thing that i think hasn't been mentioned here is to flash the S-ON from Unrevoked, I don't know if that still needs to be done but you may want to look into that. If you need it, it can be found on the Unrevoked site or just google it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Lol well got a free thank cuz my hand is spastic, not that you didn't deserve it, but I also agree, I only tell people to run the RUU from the pc. Also I have seen the RUU run 100% without the S-ON tool; though if it for whatever reason, that would be my next course of action.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derik123derik123:
well.... I'm still on the HTC logo and progress bar... How long should that be there for? and what if Its still there? what do I do?

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derik123derik123:
wait... forgot to Fastboot reboot

my bad..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #Winning#:
Well my only thought was that if you don't run the S-ON that your phone will still say S-OFF even after you run an RUU. I have never risked this so I can't confirm but I could have sworn I had seen others post that they unrooted with an RUU but didnt run the S-ON and even after everything was done the phone still said S-OFF. guess if he is just selling it on EBAY shouldnt be a big deal but if Sprint see's this it may be an issue.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Lol, someone is anxious today.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #Winning#:
To my memory when you run the RUU it can take a little while, just be patient and watch the progress on your computer. You don't have to reboot the fastboot just a suggestion. If your computer shows the progress through the RUU ( as in the percentage its on) you should be okay just wait.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derik123derik123:
sorry, just really didn't want to screw this out. otherwise I'd be out 300$ haha

But all is good my friends. We're back to stock no root. Thank you all very much.

thread can be closed.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #Winning#:
Hey out of curiousity, get into bootloader and see if it says S-ON or S-OFF. I was kinda curious as to if the RUU would turn it back on.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Its supposed to go back to S-ON, otherwise it technically failed. :P But if it didn't, then he would need to flash the S-ON tool, but it SHOULD be S-ON.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #Winning#:
Oh I know, but Unrevoked has changed things so much since the very first version things have changed here and there. I remember about 5 months ago there was a guy who broke his power button and couldnt flash the s-on, so he was unable to take it back to Sprint. I know its supposed to but I am pretty sure with some versions of Unrevoked (IE Forever) you have to flash the S-ON. http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/unrevoked3 that is directly from the Unrevoked website, check out the question about it in the Q and A, according to them it must be flashed for that version. I just didnt know for this version if it had to be.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
True that. I don't know he used unforever...I helped jacked [see what I did there :p] half way through the process. I'm just glad he's all set to go. And kudos to you as well for the tag team assistance.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #Winning#:
O this one wasnt too hard at all, but it is very common for people who are trying to root to get very anxious and worried. I had a guy one time that couldnt figure it out and was going CRAZY, he wanted me to call him to walk through it or get on Skype and walk him through it. LOL
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
xD I know exactly what you mean. Some things you come across are a good laugh, all in fun though.
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
IF your hesitating to try CM7 because its in BETA... just give it a shot.

The only thing that doesn't work is GPS, and thats getting to be fixed...

and pictures will be shown in the second post as well... im taking them right now.

Pictures below.
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
Wow, that really looks good. Can you tell me how much is the available ram?
[Vibrant General] dligon:
Im waiting for that new and improved pre-haircut justin bieber theme for cm7 before i flash.
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
I'm GUESSING this is the RAM, but right after rebooting, i went to Advanced task killer, and it says Available Memory 153

if thats not RAM, tell me how to check and i'll do it.

If you flash this now, the updates will just be a few files that you can flash.

Unless if you ABSOLUTELY NEED GPS, then i suggest you flash :)
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
yeah, i was hesitant to flash it, though i was a huge cm fan when i was using my g1. but i just flashed it and i'm happy with it.
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
is the task manager built in to our phone still there? Becuase our phone currently shows 304 ram in the ram manager.
[Vibrant General] cashyftw:
The only thing keeping me away is battery life, I'm kind of iffy on it, how is it?
[Vibrant General] dligon:
where did you get those other themes for theme chooser. i only have 3
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
Mem info (avail/total) 61/330MB
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
battery life isn't that great. but we'll see if it improves after a couple charges and i fall back into normal use, cause right now i'm still in grabbing my phone every couple seconds to check/play with something mode.
[Vibrant General] nickdog670:
I might flash this, I rarely use the GPS anyways. I've never used ODIN before though so it kind of scares me!
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
Don't be. Make sure you learn about recovery and download mode though
[Vibrant General] jn_vista:
Odin is so easy a caveman could do it!
[Vibrant General] duboi97:
Where do you get themes? Thanks for this thread I flashed this thanks to you and I thought bionix 1.3 was stable + fast. Ill thank you once I'm off my phone. Thank you again my phone feels like it has new life with this aosp rom instead of a rom which uses the same base each time.

Btw: What's the best theme in your opinion.

Edit: I got on my computer to download themes and I've thanked you. Your Welcome (although its not a big deal to thank)
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
no problem... just press thanks :D

the best theme? well, tbh they all look kinda same just with different colors lol.

For themes; go here: http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=527

look for threads labeled "theme manager, theme chooser, CM7"

you can search those on that section and get some great themes.
[Vibrant General] duboi97:
I know how to choose themes but I don't like the three stock themes that much I love my phone even more now. can I still overclock with setcpu.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Cm7 has bugs still... You made it sound like a daily driver.
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
Because it is.

The only "major" thing not working is gps and I haven't used gps in a while so I don't need it.
[Vibrant General] duboi97:
Actually not really its really good and aosp :)! Its my daily driver now. Just download the update and flash it, then it will be a daily driver the initial release was extremely buggy + download the kb1 modem = best rom (for me)
[Vibrant General] eunkipark92:
I'll give it a try when battery life gets better

running Trigger 2.6.1

/dead horse kernel

/honeycomb theme.
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
yea, from the CM7 thread, looks like a lot of people are using it as a DD now.
[Vibrant General] alecjake:
Is there a way to have the battery percent number put into the battery in the notification bar?
[Vibrant General] hitman818:
Settings/Cyanmod settings/interface/statusbar tweaks/battery percentage.
[Vibrant General] TJBunch1228:
When we all bought Vibrants we pretty much admitted that none of us ABSOLUTELY needs GPS. Amirite?! :)

¿Eye kan haz moar Jinjerbred? Kthxbai
[Vibrant General] pegasus912:
It looks pretty awesome, as soon as the rest of the kinks are worked out I will be usimg cm7 on a more permanent basis. Right now I'm running Darky's rom and dead horse and its blazing fast.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dman777:
This isn't a lag problem. It doesn't matter if I use stock browser or Dolphin...but when surfing the internet about after 5 pages the browsers will stop using the data connection. It doesn't matter if it's 3g or wifi. The browsers will still work, they aren't frozen. They just won't load any web pages...no matter what web pages they are. I won't get a dead link web page message, I'll just get a white screen as it is trying to load a web page. Only a reboot fixes this. Any ideas what is wrong?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenvan19:
Bowser is using your phone?!?!?!

No seriously though, have you tried Opera? Dolphin uses the same core as the stock browser and I had this issue quite often on some of Morfic's kernels but using Opera the problem went away.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dman777:
ok, i'll try opera. i had this problem both with trinity and netarchy kernels.

thanks.
[Android Themes] natehoch96:
I am making a really simple stock ROM for my myTouch 4G that included some of the things I like about stock Gingerbread without actually having stock Gingerbread. My question is, is it possible to have the kinetic scrolling and the black menu that pops up when you hit the menu key on other ROMS? If so, how can I do it? Thanks.
[Gen8 Android Development] chrulri:
This thread is for discussing features and improvements of this rooting method

For questions and problems read the [HOWTO] thread

Project site online: archos-gen8-sde-rooting
[Gen8 Android Development] chrulri:
That's what I tried previously (before the /data thing), but I had no luck and it's a big issue because android tries to unmount /mnt/storage when you connect your archos device to the computer but that's not possible because the lock of the mounted rw-file makes umounting of /mnt/storage impossible and I have to mount the rw-file before /mnt/storage gets mounted, that's another issue which must be resolved.
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Yeah I came to the same conclusion as you, that what I suggested would bork the usb mount option to the PC.

Another thing I realized is that the official firmware upgrades could probably update files on the data partition. So moving the whole partition is not an option as that would break the upgrade process.

I've been looking at splitting the storage partition in several parts with parted I found an arm binary at http://plugapps.com/arm/ maybe these can be included in the initramfs.

I've also been analyzing my data partition

# du -s /data/*
112003 app
70503 dalvik-cache
40084 data
4622 test

The test directory is the place where the google market is installed via arctools or gappsinstaller.

So if it's possible to split the storage partition in several part we could move these dirs to it's own partition. This would not be optimal a good solution would be to move the complete data partition over but this needs a bit of thinking how to handle upgrades.
[Gen8 Android Development] chrulri:
We could shrink the internal storage and append partition(s) after it. I'll give it a try, as long as my usb port is broken I have more time to focus on this here :)
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
I've been trying to cross compile e2fsprogs and parted but I can't seem to get it.

e2fsprogs-1.41.14$ cross ./configure --host=arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi --build=i686-linux

Completes without errors but the make does not complete.

gen_uuid.c:(.text+0x418): undefined reference to `__aeabi_read_tp'
../../lib/libuuid.a(gen_uuid.o):gen_uuid.c:(.text+0x788): more undefined references to `__aeabi_read_tp' follow

I've tried to use the pre-compiled packages but it seems they don't work or i'm missing something.
[Gen8 Android Development] chrulri:
fdisk is already included in initramfs thus no need for a parted binary.

edit: but to minimize data loss we need a resize2fs binary to resize the fat/ext3 partition

mkfs.ext3 (for the rw partition) and fsck are included too in the initramfs by archos
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Yep resize2fs is part of e2fsprogs. I've been working on the packages in the buildroot there seems to be a lot of errors but I finally succeeded in building the e2fsprogs package. but riseze2fs is not included. I need to check the config for that package maybe there is an option missing.
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
To get the buildroot working properly you need to copy the file

cp local/g8_arm/g8_arm.config .config

remove the line

package/apdf/Config.in

from .config.cmd

remove the line

depends on BR2_EXT_UCLIBC_VERSION_0_9_30_1

from toolchain/uClibc/Config.in

then in the buildroot directory execute

make menuconfig

enable the e2fsprogs in Package selection -> Harware handling

also you have to remove the --disable-resizer from the e2fsprogs.mk file else the resizer is not build.

I can't believe this build package from archos is very up-to-date it seems very strange that all these bugs are in there how where they ever building a good firmware.
[Gen8 Android Development] chrulri:
but that builds dynamic linked binaries, doesn't it? but we need a static build, don't we?
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Yeah stupid me it needs to run in the initramfs and that does not contain any libraries. Let me check to see if it's possible to link it statically.
[Gen8 Android Development] chrulri:
and because it has to be statically linked, maybe we better just take the newest e2fsprogs (btw.: does this support FAT resizing?!) and compile it without that buildroot stuff (except for the toolchain of course, we need that to crosscompile)
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Well I tried that and failed. That's why I wanted to do it in the buildroot. I'll try again later need to create a clean environment and do some diffs after I fixed all the stuff that's wrong.
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
I think I got it.

Add

export BOARD=g8_arm

To your .bashrc then in the buildroot directory do a make it will take a while as it needs to build everything. This is just a precaution as i think the statically linked resize2fs needs some linking with uclib libraries.

After that is finished do a

make e2fsprogs LDFLAGS=-static

in the buildroot directory. You should find the resize2fs binary in the directory buildroot/project_build_arm/uclibc/root/sbin

$ file resize2fs
resize2fs: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
resize2fs does not resize vfat so we probably need parted and some extra utils
[Gen8 Android Development] chrulri:
I started hacking around and I came to the conclusion that it would be better to change the initramfs to mount /data from mmcblk1p2 if that partition exists and not if it's not existing and move the whole partition resizing, partition creating, partition deleting (if you wan't to revert without dataloss) and again resizing into an app. so the user has more control over what he's doing and see's if something is failing and not just get's a bootloop or some fancy log file. ;)

edit: /data is mounted by /init.rc script, all of the above can be done by an app, incl. modifying /init.rc script. no need for any special initramfs, yay! :D

everybody who has +rw rooting installed will be able to use that app. I'm starting development...

edit2: project page online: http://code.google.com/p/archos-gen8-sde-rooting/

stay tuned :)
[Gen8 Android Development] chrulri:
First test app: http://code.google.com/p/archos-gen8-sde-rooting/downloads/detail?name=AppDataResizer_v0.1.apk

Release notes:

note: 250 GB version of the A70 is currently not supported.
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
Nice. Yep I was thinking about the transition from standard to custom and also came to the conclusion it had to be done outside the boot process scripts.

Edit: Should this app be installable via the usual way or should it be a system app? (Copied to /system/app)

What I was thinking was split the process in 3 steps.

Step1: Resize storage partition, Add new-data partition and format.

Step2: Copy existing /data to /new-data

Step3: Enable/Disable new-data

Maybe a step2a: To run after upgrade of firmware to check things that have changed.

The step1 requires a reboot as the partitioning should be done in the initramfs if you do that when apps are running you're going to have a hell of a time getting the storage partition unmounted (I know I had the problem when testing the parted binary)

Step2 can be done without any problem when storage is mounted and Step3 requires a reboot after the init.rc is changed.
[Gen8 Android Development] chrulri:
usual way (download and install) (or maybe I include it in the initramfs (like the Superuser.apk) and copy it to /system/app, but I don't like modifying initramfs any further, no need for 100 different versions ;))

great, that were my plans too.

No API to unmount /sdcard/? I think I got one: IMountService it's not a public API but android.os.FileUtils isn't public either and it's working great. I think IMountService is the API that the popup, which pops up when you connect your android device to the computer, uses. I think, no need to worry because android handles everything pretty well when you connect your device to the computer, isn't it?

agreed
[Gen8 Android Development] wdl1908:
I tried to install it but it won't install. logcat gives something like

Pckage chrulri.gen8.AppDataResizer has no certificated at entry res/layout/main.xml

Yep I agree no need for different versions of the initramfs

The problem is not only the mount of /mnt/storage if the user has used move2sd there are a lot of other mounts present that also uses that partition.

maybe the API will do. Needs to be tested.

One other remark. Let the AppDataResizer check for the unionfs directory so that you can be sure you'r running on the correct initramfs.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] MrSub:
Has anyone used this app. I have used it for a few days and it is alright. It works good when I go shopping with my wife. You just open the app and click the store your in and scan the items it tells you for points. You are supposed to be able to cash points in for gift cards and what not. I have a referral code that gets your 50 points to start. Pm if you want it. I don't know if am able to post it to everyone.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] indomikey:
Been using is for awhile now, there are some bugs here and there, and when you switch roms, make sure you are logged in again when using it.

Otherwise the main annoying thing, it is pretty darn difficult to "walk-in" to a store with captivates craptastic gps, either that or their entry points are way off. I have only successfully walked into 2 stores, and can't even repeat that success at the same stores.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Jay1390:
Shopkick Walk-ins

I just started using shopkick. Did some research on how it works, the walk-ins use an audio sound from what I've read. It's frequency that's above our ability to hear.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Jay1390:
Shopkick

Also, if you're interested, I have links to the bar codes of many of the items to scan. I use Location Spoofer to set my location close to store location so I can scan the bar codes off my computer screen.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] MMAHavok69:
gps 100% better on newer models

I got a captivate back in september and recently I hard bricked it. So Iwent to the store and they gave me a new one for free under warrenty (they couldn't even turn it on and apparently the power back on was a known issue for the model I had, even for now rooted users). Well long story short, even before I did the kies mini update to froyo I noticed the GPS was spot on, really fast before and after update. I think the older ones suffer from hardware issue more than a software issue.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] MrSub:
Sure send it my way pls